Mongolian Ritual Texts in Manuscript Collections in the Czech
Republic

B 2022

Mongolian Ritual Texts in Manuscript Collections in the Czech Republic

SRBA, Ondřej and Michal SCHWARZ

Basic information

Original name

Mongolian Ritual Texts in Manuscript Collections in the Czech Republic

Authors

SRBA, Ondřej (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Michal SCHWARZ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

1. vyd. Brno, 497 pp. Part 1, 2022

Publisher

Masaryk University Press

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Odborná kniha

Field of Study

60206 Specific literatures

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

References:

Kompletní verze e-knihy ke stažení Stránka knihy v digitální knihovně Masarykovy univerzity

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/22:00129390

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-80-280-0237-4

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M280-0238-2022

Keywords in English

Mongolian rituals; ritual texts; incense offerings; Mongolian Buddhism; manuscripts; palaeography; facsimiles

Abstract

V originále

The present book is a critical edition of Mongolian ritual manuscripts preserved in Czech collections. It offers palaeographic descriptions, transcriptions for all the manuscripts, accompanied in most cases by English translations and selected facsimiles. The edition includes the majority of popular ritual text categories written in Classical Mongolian (mostly incense offering rituals) commonly circulating in the extramonastic milieu of premodern Mongolia: texts on the (hearth) fire worship, White Old Man, Offering of the Fox, Geser Khan, hunting rituals, while several texts related to cults of local deities, protection of livestock, as well as popular religious songs and individual prayers are appearing in the scholarly literature for the first time. The corpus of edited manuscripts is preceded by a brief introduction to the role of ritual texts in the Mongolian popular religious life and to the history of their research and accompanied by thematic remarks from the fieldwork. The sources have a high comparative value for the currently intensely developing field of Mongolian Buddhist studies.

Links

GA19-07619S, research and development project

Name: Mongolské rituální rukopisy v české sbírce: jejich edice, historie a středoasijské kořeny

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

Citovat

SRBA, Ondřej and Michal SCHWARZ. Mongolian Ritual Texts in Manuscript Collections in the Czech Republic. 1st ed. Brno: Masaryk University Press, 2022, 497 pp. Part 1. ISBN 978-80-280-0237-4. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M280-0238-2022.

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SRBA, Ondřej and Michal SCHWARZ. \textit{Mongolian Ritual Texts in Manuscript Collections in the Czech Republic}. 1st ed. Brno: Masaryk University Press, 2022, 497 pp. Part 1. ISBN~978-80-280-0237-4. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M280-0238-2022.

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